Jamie-Lee Tuuta, New Zealand - Integrative Lawyers of the World, S5, Ep.2
Jamie-Lee Tuuta (Ngai Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri, Ngāti Toa Rangatira) is a collaborative and integrative lawyer from New Zealand. She is a barrister who specializes in Family Law and Māori Land Law. She is trained as collaborative practitioner and mediator. Jamie-Lee is involved in various kaupapa with the focus on improving justice outcomes for Whanau Māori. In this episode, she shares her legal journey and how she develops and applies her legal skills, such as her collaborative law training, to address social and economic inequality and improve the quality of life for everyone, particularly those who do not have the capacity to access the necessary services they need and deserve.
Integrative Lawyers of the World · Jamie-Lee Tuuta, Kerry Raleigh
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Show Notes
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Jamie-Lee’s multi-cultural (Māori & European) ancestry and how this influences how she sees the world
- The Māori people and culture
- Her legal journey from corporate law to community law, family law, collaborative law, and integrative law
- Her experience as an In-house lawyer with the Waitangi tribunal, which was set-up for Māori to assert claims that the crown is in breach of The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- Her work to help support children and families
- Collaborative Law in New Zealand
- Her dream of building a collaborative law practice group or community for lawyers with indigenous links.
- What being an integrative lawyer means to her
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